II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKI4
Main site or place of performance:
United Kingdom and Northern Ireland
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
FSCS is seeking to award contracts to 2 individual service-providers for the provision of secure cheque printing and mailing services comprising the following:
Implementation services:
— put in place standby and payment services capable of anytime short notice invocation,
— supplier project management of design, including End to End testing, through to implementation of standbyservice.
Standby services:
— cheque base-stock and envelope stock production and storage capability, or outsource/sub-contract facilities for same,
— security around plant, stock and process consistent with sensitive materials and mail handling, and accredited.
Cheque production.
Payment services:
— printing, enclosing and dispatching cheques to the required standards within the required timeframes
— receiving data for up to 2 million records on Day 1, and ensuring all records are dispatched by last post before the end of Day 4 (exceptions apply to non-Business days),
— receipt/transmission of data via via Secure File Transfer (SFTP), a secure method over the Internet (For example SFTP,Portal or Website secured by TLS 1.2 or higher), Error handling and management Information Reporting over invocation period via same protocol,
— returned mail handling and reporting facility.
Each service contract of secure cheque provider services will be the same and it is intention that FSCS will award the primary service provider contract to the tenderer having submitted the most economically advantageous tender, then secondary service provider to tenderer of the second most economically advantageous tender.
The payment services work will be allocated to the service providers on a tiered basis so that primary service provider is preferred and where the primary service does not have enough capacity then work will be given to secondary provider.
Notwithstanding paragraph above FSCS will from time to time issue Payment Service Orders (PSOs) to the secondary provider for the purposes of testing secondary provider’s readiness.
Both primary and secondary providers are required to provide implementation services and standby services without as relevant throughout the term of the contract.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 36
This contract is subject to renewal: Yes
Description of renewals:
2 x 12 month renewals.
II.2.9) Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited
II.2.10) Information about variants
Variants will be accepted:
No
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
No
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No